■ Developing Town: Returning WWI vets pushed for better roads
(Editorial Note: Part 199 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Franklin County Citizen, 1920-29; Gentile Valley, The First 100 Years by Thatcher Ward) The roads in this part of frontier America at the turn of the 20th century were often not more than a widened path. At best they were dirt roads created for stagecoach and freight wagons to transport people and supplies to mines and scattered town sites that were, bit by bit, being organized...
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